More than nine million people in northern Ethiopia are in need of critical food supplies, the UN saysThe World Food Programme (WFP) has suspended distribution of food aid in two northern Ethiopian towns after gunmen looted its warehouses. The spokesman also accused military personnel of commandeering three WFP humanitarian trucks and using them for their own purposes. The Tigrayan rebels have not commented on the allegations that their fighters stole food aid. The Ethiopian government recently announced that it had recaptured the towns from the Tigray rebels. But so far only a fraction of what is urgently needed is getting to people in the Amhara, Afar and Tigray regions.

Source: Ethiopian News December 09, 2021 05:26 UTC